Sydney Ideas

Vivien Lovell is a visual arts curator and founder of Modus Operandi, an independent public art consultancy organisation based in the UK. She has managed numerous national public art commissions for clients including London Docklands Development Corporation. She explores the fundamentally positive contribution public art can make to creating communities.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/vivien_lovell.shtml

Vivien Lovell is a visual arts curator and founder of Modus Operandi, an independent public art consultancy organisation based in the UK. She has managed numerous national public art commissions for clients including London Docklands Development Corporation. She explores the fundamentally positive contribution public art can make to creating communities.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/vivien_lovell.shtml

Professor Rana Mitter, History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, explores how the battered China of wartime became today’s superpower in the making – and why.

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Professor Rana Mitter, History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, explores how the battered China of wartime became today’s superpower in the making – and why.

For more information and speaker's biography see: tinyurl.com/jbga4ql

Professor Rana Mitter, History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, explores how the battered China of wartime became today’s superpower in the making – and why.

For more information and speaker's biography see: tinyurl.com/jbga4ql

For decades, particle physicists have searched for the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece to the "Standard Model" that explains the world we see. In July 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva announced that they found it.

In this 2013 Sydney Ideas lecture, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explained why the Higgs boson is so important, talked about the enormous challenge physicists overcame to build the LHC and get it running, and considered what the future of particle physics will look like.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/sean_carroll.shtml

For decades, particle physicists have searched for the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece to the "Standard Model" that explains the world we see. In July 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva announced that they found it.

In this 2013 Sydney Ideas lecture, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explained why the Higgs boson is so important, talked about the enormous challenge physicists overcame to build the LHC and get it running, and considered what the future of particle physics will look like.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/sean_carroll.shtml

For decades, particle physicists have searched for the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece to the "Standard Model" that explains the world we see. In July 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva announced that they found it.

In this 2013 Sydney Ideas lecture, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explained why the Higgs boson is so important, talked about the enormous challenge physicists overcame to build the LHC and get it running, and considered what the future of particle physics will look like.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/sean_carroll.shtml

American art historian and art critic, Professor Thomas Crow from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York, is best known for his influential writing on the role of art in modern society and culture. For this presentation he turns his attention to 1960s Pop Art, and examines it enduring legacy beyond the international counter-culture it originally represented.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/professor_thomas_crow.shtml

American art historian and art critic, Professor Thomas Crow from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York, is best known for his influential writing on the role of art in modern society and culture. For this presentation he turns his attention to 1960s Pop Art, and examines it enduring legacy beyond the international counter-culture it originally represented.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/professor_thomas_crow.shtml